Suchergebnisse

1. Spacewar! The Dark Side of Astroculture- Alexander C. T. Geppert and Tilmann Siebeneichner -- Part I: Embattling the Heavens -- 2. Cold War – But No War – in Space- Michael J. Neufeld -- 3. The Nuclear Roots of the Space Race- Christopher Gainor -- 4. West European Integration and the Militarization of Outer Space, 1945–70- Michael Sheehan -- Part II: Waging Future Wars -- 5. In Space, Violence Rules: Clashes and Conquests in Science Fiction Cinema- Natalija Majsova -- 6. C. S. Lewis and the Moral Threat of Space Exploration, 1938–64- Oliver Dunnett -- 7. One Nation, Two Astrocultures? Rocketry, Security and Dual Use in Di-vided Germany, 1949–61- Daniel Brandau -- Part III: Armoring Minds and Bodies -- 8. Participant Evolution: Cold War Space Medicine and the Militarization of the Cyborg Self- Patrick Kilian -- 9. Starship Troopers: The Shaping of the Space Warrior in Cold War As-troculture, 1950–80- Philipp Theisohn -- 10. Satellites and Psychics: The Militarization of Outer and Inner Space, 1960–95- Anthony Enns -- Part IV: Mounting Infrastructures -- 11. Architectures of Command: The Dual-Use Legacy of Mission Control Centers- Regina Peldszus -- 12. Space Spies in the Open: Military Space Stations and Heroic Cosmo-nauts in the Post-Apollo Period, 1971–77- Cathleen Lewis -- 13. Satellite Navigation and the Military-Civilian Dilemma: The Geopolitics of GPS and its Rivals- Paul E. Ceruzzi -- 14. What Is, and To What End Do We Study, European Astroculture?- Alexander C. T. Geppert.

In Europe, love has been given a prominent place in European self-representations from the Enlightenment onwards. The category of love, stemming from private and personal spheres, was given a public function and used to distinguish European civilisation from others. Contributors to this volume trace historical links and analyse specific connections between the two discourses on love and Europe over the course of the twentieth century, exploring the distinctions made between the public and private, the political and personal. In doing so, this volume develops an innovative historiography that

Unter dem Schlagwort des spatial turn erlebt 'Raum' gegenwärtig eine ungeahnte Renaissance in der Geschichtswissenschaft. Was dort schnell zur Mode geworden ist, beschäftigt andere Disziplinen indes schon seit langem. Der interdisziplinär angelegte Band bereitet daher Theorie- und Wissensangebote aus verschiedenen Nachbardisziplinen für historiographische Zwecke auf und lotet zugleich anhand von Fallstudien das Verhältnis von Raum und Kommunikation im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert aus. Dabei steht nichts weniger als die Eignung von Raum als Zentralkategorie für eine neu zu konzipierende Kommunikationsgeschichte zur Disposition.

In Europe, love has been given a prominent place in European self-representations from the Enlightenment onwards. The category of love, stemming from private and personal spheres, was given a public function and used to distinguish European civilisation from others. Contributors to this volume trace historical links and analyse specific connections between the two discourses on love and Europe over the course of the twentieth century, exploring the distinctions made between the public and private, the political and personal. In doing so, this volume develops an innovative historiography that includes such resources as autobiographies, love letters, and cinematic representations, and takes issue with the exclusivity of Eurocentrism. Its contributors put forth hypotheses about the historical pre-eminence of emotions and consider this history as a basis for a non-Eurocentric understanding of new possible European identities